{"id":402,"date":"2021-02-01T09:35:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T09:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fozteh.com\/?p=402"},"modified":"2021-02-01T09:36:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T09:36:55","slug":"the-twitter-mob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"The Twitter Mob"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have twitter but I rarely check it, it&#8217;s more of a &#8216;something I do sitting on the toilet&#8217; social event to see what&#8217;s going on in the world while I have a few minutes to myself with nothing else to do. COVID still doesnt seem to want to leave me alone so, when bored, I hop on and have a look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My email provider, Protonmail, has had a downtime this morning &#8211; on a Monday morning, ffs &#8211; and I expressed my exasperation at not being able to receive important emails (due to the above health issue). Now credit where credit is due, they fixed the issue within a couple of hours and all seems fine, but the mob mentality of those jumping to respond was just something I guess Im not used to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are still working on the issue. At this time, we have narrowed it down and are working on a resolution. We apologize for the issue and will have another update in approximately half an hour.<\/p>&mdash; Proton (@ProtonPrivacy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProtonPrivacy\/status\/1356155920632459264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I know everyone is entitled to their own opinions and that&#8217;s fine, I accept it. Say what you want, Im thick skinned! I guess it was just the rapid influx of messages saying that &#8216;you&#8217;re wrong&#8217;, then the replies to those defending the end-user, and the replies to those on the other side of the argument &#8211; mental!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll just go back to being an occasional viewer on the toilet \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have twitter but I rarely check it, it&#8217;s more of a &#8216;something I do sitting on the toilet&#8217; social event to see what&#8217;s going on in the world while I have a few minutes to myself with nothing else to do. COVID still doesnt seem to want to leave me alone so, when bored, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadlypointless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}